The Doom of London
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- Publication date
- 2018-11-05
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- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Topics
- librivox, audiobooks, bravery, urban disasters, human ingenuity, epidemic
- Language
- English
LibriVox recording of The Doom of London by Fred M. White.
Read in English by Lee Smalley
Here are six stories, each one describing a disaster afflicting London, that were popularly serialized during 1903-1904 in Pearson’s Magazine. The tales depict (1) a deep freeze and unprecedented snowfall; (2) a heavy, blinding, paralyzing blanket of fog; (3) a widespread killer virus; (4) a fraudulent scheme causing financial panic; (5) a minor electrical accident in a tunnel that spirals into catastrophe; and (6) most of the city’s water supply, reportedly contaminated with deadly bubonic bacillus, puts the population in great fear of plague. Is the word “doom” in the book's title accurate, or is it just hyperbole? (Lee Smalley)
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Read in English by Lee Smalley
Here are six stories, each one describing a disaster afflicting London, that were popularly serialized during 1903-1904 in Pearson’s Magazine. The tales depict (1) a deep freeze and unprecedented snowfall; (2) a heavy, blinding, paralyzing blanket of fog; (3) a widespread killer virus; (4) a fraudulent scheme causing financial panic; (5) a minor electrical accident in a tunnel that spirals into catastrophe; and (6) most of the city’s water supply, reportedly contaminated with deadly bubonic bacillus, puts the population in great fear of plague. Is the word “doom” in the book's title accurate, or is it just hyperbole? (Lee Smalley)
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. M4B Audiobook (123MB)
- Addeddate
- 2018-11-05 05:27:40
- Call number
- 13384
- External-identifier
- urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:doom_of_london_ls_1811_librivox
- External_metadata_update
- 2019-04-01T13:49:42Z
- Identifier
- doom_of_london_ls_1811_librivox
- Ocr
- ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR)
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.14
- Ppi
- 600
- Run time
- 4:27:29
- Year
- 2018
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